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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 1h

Trump is heckled in the Israeli Knesset.

Members of the Israeli parliament Ayman Odeh and Ofer Cassif were removed from the hall after raising signs reading "genocide”.

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Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 41m

I think I need Margot Robbie in a bath to explain this to me

Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 44m

Massive crypto sell off amp.scmp.com/tech/tech-tr...

‘My crypto life is over’: sell-off triggers angst on Chinese social media

Exchanges will forcibly sell a trader’s leveraged positions if their losses approach the amount of their initial investment.

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Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 1h

I just had the urge to wash windows, vacuum, is this spring fever?

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The Singing Detective on vinyl - It Might As Well Be Spring

YouTube video by BlackHoleSon

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Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 1h

I have no words for my disgust at her small mouthed small mind. I’m out of words

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 2h

I want everyone to the think of the poor production teams having to act on increasingly unhinged requests. They didn't ask for this. They don't deserve this. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A book is being marketed with mayo-scented ink. Jealous? Me? | David Barnett

With the rise of TikTok and two-tier marketing budgets, something’s off in the world of publishing (and it’s not just the aroma), says author David Barnett

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Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 2h

Just imagine the moral bankruptcy to do this to a woman found by a court to have been raped

Vaxatious Litigant 💉 @exposingnv.bsky.social · 3h

Linda Reynolds launches bankruptcy proceedings against Brittany Higgins

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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 2h

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK? Reynolds is a monster. Utterly ghastly person.

Vaxatious Litigant 💉 @exposingnv.bsky.social · 3h

Linda Reynolds launches bankruptcy proceedings against Brittany Higgins

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Matthew Parkinson-Bennett @matthewpb.bsky.social · 4h

Returns from a chain bookshop have reduced our sales to a minus figure in the most important sales month of the year.

Please support independent bookshops this Christmas.

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Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 2h

They said it was because of labour shortages due to an aging population, and then cut immigration - it’s maddening

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Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 3h

Nothing I’m doing is for the greater good. Nothing I’m doing is truly helping. But I’m going to have to keep doing this soulless work for another nine years

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Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 3h

It’s all about how do we convince instructors to go on a journey (ie how do we get as much detail about someone and convince them to buy)

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Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 3h

But now I’m working in a job that truly isn’t about making people’s lives better by showing them new and amazing books

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Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 3h

I’ve been working for forty years straight. And for many of those years I believed what I did was for the collective good

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Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 3h

Having a moment. Talking to the lovely man from Iran who just wants to go back, and talking about our job conditions. And he doesn’t understand why we aren’t all out in force about having to work until we’re 67. I don’t disagree

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Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 4h

If only there was something the government could cut (hint unicorn submarines)

Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 5h

🚨 BREAKING: Brand new @ACOSS report finds 1 in 7 Australians are living in poverty, including 757,000 children. Millions of families are struggling while our leaders sit on their hands and let it happen.

Poverty in Australia 2025: Overview – Poverty and Inequality

povertyandinequality.acoss.org.au

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Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 4h

Agree, and I would posit that Australians also had no time to process the unbelievable destruction of the Black Summer fires before being flung into the maelstrom of lockdowns

Ami Berger @amiberger.bsky.social · 15h

I am working on a piece of writing about stuff that happened during the early years of COVID and the way that is making me feel is a reminder of how much unresolved trauma we are all carrying around from those years and how that is a big part of *waves hands around* that we really don't talk about

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Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 4h

So weird watching myself again on the repeat of Hard Quiz

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 13h

Important thread on how Abbott thinks the racist vibes straight from his own raw onion are more reliable than the First Nations oral histories extensively backed up by white science

Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 16h

poor old Tony Abbott is on the public broadcaster dismissing the oldest and longest continuous oral histories in the history of humanity as “hearsay” how’s your morning going.

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Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 15h

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Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 22h

Blimey

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Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 22h

Same, but I think what we’ve got is even worse with unis and publishers all offering essentially the same thing

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Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 22h

The QR codes at Monash ladies loos in 2016 promising to write everything was a precursor to LLMs doing everything for you. Difference now is the LLMs are free

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Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 23h

But why do students want to use this? Why are they using LLMs?

Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 16d

ChatGPT Edu is built for conning education executives into subsidising and edu-washing planet-burning slop machines via non-consensual access to young people’s creativity AND DATA while attacking their ability to learn. At a university.

University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 23d

NEW: Oxford will be the first UK university to give all staff and students free ChatGPT Edu access, from this academic year.

ChatGPT Edu is built for education, with enhanced privacy and security.

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Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 23h

It’s also not understanding what people would use that platform for - climate emergency realtime bushfire updates, local news (why is there a police chopper over my backyard), hyper specialised interest groups. There’s no point being there is your need isn’t serviced

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Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 23h

I would add emergency/news information that stopped appearing on the bad site. I shudder to think what Australia’s next bushfire season will be like without realtime updates from the RFS and ABC

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 1d

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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